The Finance Division has prepared an update about the economy highlighting the prevailing high inflation and falling forex reserves to submit to the finance adviser of the newly formed interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against MM Jamil Ahmed, deputy general manager of the Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation in Barishal, on charges of obtaining a job as son of a freedom fighter though his father was not a freedom fighter...
Mutual Trust Bank PLC has been named 鈥楳ost Innovative Digital Bank 鈥� Bangladesh 2024鈥� by International Finance, said a press release....
THE Finance Bill 2024 has been passed. But the budget for the 2025 financial year in its passage has retained a controversial provision that economists have always been opposed to. The passage of the bill has also failed to handle a few other issues that were considered beneficial for the economy...
The parliament passed the Finance Bill 2024 on Saturday while retaining in it the controversial provision of legalising undeclared wealth by paying a...
The finance bill for the upcoming financial year 2024鈥�25 is likely to be passed in parliament on Saturday, with the government backtracking from the imposition of a 25 per cent duty on car imports by lawmakers...
A Dhaka court on Wednesday rejected a suit filed by First Finance Limited, a non-banking financial institution, against its former additional managing director Tuhin Reza for realisation money of Tk 18.50 lakh, he allegedly approved, as advanced withdrawal...
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Monday told the Jatiya Sangsad that Bangladesh Bank is in the process of preparing the list of top loan defaulter persons and organisations...
The Finance Division has extended deadlines for fund release under operating and development budgets until June 23 from previous June 13, said the...
Climate finance experts at a press conference urged the government to mobilise more green finance to combat climatic events by imposing a carbon tax and...
Defaulted loans of the state-owned entities increased by around 65 per cent in the past two years amid a lack of initiative to realise those, finance ministry officials...
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Thursday that they had to follow the World Bank for foreign currencies, while former state minister for...
The finance division has identified around half a dozen challenges, including high inflation, a low tax鈥揋DP ratio, non-performing loans, and high...
Independent lawmaker Md Nasser Shahrear Zahedee on Thursday criticised finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali for reducing subsidies in agriculture in the proposed budget for the financial year 2024-25...
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Friday that he was disappointed with the questions made by journalists about proposed budgetary measures for...
The government has proposed the reintroduction of undisclosed money legalisation scopes in the new national budget to appease businessmen, officials...
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday announced a series of measures, including reintroducing scope for legalising undisclosed money by paying tax at a...
The government has increased excise duty on high-figure bank deposits in the proposed budget for the 2024-25 financial year...
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday proposed rationalising at the import level the minimum value of certain products, including cotton and synthetic fabrics, for imposing duty to safeguard the local industry...
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has proposed that general investors in the capital market pay capital gain tax from the 2024-25 financial year if their income crosses Tk聽50 lakh...
Finance minister AH Mahmood Ali said that the government would introduce a credit scoring system utilising artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to facilitate loan services from these digital banks....
The government has set a target to limit inflation within 6.5 per cent in the financial year 2024鈥�25, although prices of food and non-food items keep rising over...
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has started placing the Tk 7,97,000 crore national budget in parliament for the fiscal year 2024-25....
Finance minister Abul Hasaan Mahmood Ali on Wednesday said that the government would clear arrears on power purchases from the Adani Group of India...
Wealthy countries met their target of providing $100 billion in annual climate aid to poorer countries for the first time in 2022 though two years later than promised, the OECD said on Wednesday...
Grameen America, the fastest-growing nonprofit microfinance organisation in the United States of America, plans to invest $40 billion of loan capital in underserved women entrepreneurs by 2033, according to a press release...
Prime minister鈥檚 private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman on Monday stressed on strengthening the country鈥檚 capital market to ensure finance for investors...
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Sunday said that the army could take action against former Bangladesh Army chief General Aziz Ahmed.....
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Sunday said that the next course of action should be launching crackdown on loan defaulters after the exchange rate problem was almost fixed...
The finance ministry is likely to narrow down focuses on austerity steps in the coming national budget following pressures from other ministries and...